Disable Author Pages Plugin

Disable the author pages ( /author=? ) in wordpress and redirect the user to another page.

1. Install the plugin from within the Dashboard or upload the directory disable-author-pages and all its contents to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
3. Configure it under settings/disable author pages

Installation Instructions

1. Install the plugin from within the Dashboard or upload the directory disable-author-pages and all its contents to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
3. Configure it under settings/disable author pages

I have a new translation

Translations are handled via https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/disable-author-pages

I found a bug

Please report it at https://github.com/staude/disable-author-pages/issues

I have a feature request

Please report it at https://github.com/staude/disable-author-pages/issues

0.11

• version tagging sync github / wordpress.org svn. Thanks to swissspidy
• fix: notice plugin_settings_link not static. Thanks to swissspidy

0.10

• DB clean up on uninstall
• added settings list on pluginlist

0.9

• fix: redirect to pages. Thanks to Georg
• changed text domain for translations via translate.wordpress.org
• added github updater metadata

0.8

• Updated German Translation, Urls and Description. Thanks to krafit
• Minor spelling correction. Thanks to tristanpenman

0.7

• Make it work if WordPress installed in a subdirectory
  https://github.com/staude/disable-author-pages/pull/1
  Thanks to smeric
• Moved sourcecode to GitHub: https://github.com/staude/disable-author-pages
• Moved Issuetracker to GitHub: https://github.com/staude/disable-author-pages/issues

0.6

Fix: When I choose redirect to “Profile” page and save, the dialogue reverts back to Homepage. ( Thanks to Tradedog )

0.5

Fix: Notice: Trying to get property of non-object in wp-includes/post-template.php on line 29 (from user BackuPs – Thanks)

0.4

• Added feature disable only admin author page (from user BackuPs – Thanks)
• Added feature redirect non exists autor page (instead of default 404) ( Request from Matt Jensen – Thanks)

0.3

Disable some php notices if WP Debug active

0.2

• Added settings to Options > Author Pages
• 0000027: Overwrite the author_link (optional).
• 0000029: status of redirect
• 0000028: Select destination for redirect

0.1

First version.